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Squally Weekend for parts of WA

Graeme Brittain, Tuesday August 23, 2016 - 12:02 AEST

The start of this week has been dominated by dry and settled weather for
the majority of Western Australia, but as we look forward to the end of
the working week, conditions are set to deteriorate.

From Friday, a deepening area of low pressure is going to track along the
southern coast of Western Australia. Heavy rain and strong winds will
accompany the system.

The main rain band will hit the southwest on Friday afternoon, bringing
15-25mm of rainfall quite widely across the Lower West, South West and
western parts of Great Southern and South Coastal, before the day is out.

The strongest of the winds, on the systems northern flank, will occur from
Saturday morning through until the early hours of Sunday; over this
period, gusts exceeding 70 km/h are forecast along much of the coastline
from Perth to Albany.

Conditions will begin to settle down again early next week as a high
pressure ridge builds in from the west.

- Weatherzone

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